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From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org>
Subject: Re: syncing mail by simply syncing the filesystem
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:23:45 +0200, Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org> wrote:

> syncing maildir works.  notmuch's db resides inside your maildir, but its
> probably not safe to do while its running. And you can only have one
> place receive your mail, otherwise you loose tags.

Well, only one place where you mark things unread as well with this
approach. Otherwise updating the database in two places and attempting
to sync will lead to an unmergable conflict, won't it?

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